Worldwide, there are over 20,000 bee species in seven Families. Some commonly encountered and recognizable genera in eastern North America are described below. Since 2006, when large die-offs of honey ...
Female (left) and male (right) Xanthesma (Xenohesma) brachycera. Images are anterior (a and b), lateral (c and d), and dorsal (e and f). Scale bars are 0.5 mm. Credit: Australian Journal of Taxonomy ...
A rare bee species called the diadasia nitidifrons collected by a Washington Bee Atlas volunteer in Yakima County. This bee was last documented in Washington in 1919. Courtesy Washington Bee Atlas / ...
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The planet’s oldest bee species has become the world’s first insect to be granted legal rights
In a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru, ...
(TMX) - A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh insight into how much remains unknown about the country’s native ...
The following six families of bees are found in the New York City area: the Colletidae (18 species), Halictidae (46 species), Andrenidae (63 species), Melittidae (3 species, although these have not ...
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